IBM 7030

This IBM 7030 7030 "Stretch" was one of the world's first supercomputers. It was delivered to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1961 to aid in the design of nuclear weapons. The cost of the complete computer was nearly $8 million and it took up nearly 2,500 square feet.

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